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Management always swearing by the scanner GPS, but my scanner GPS isn't pinpoint accurate. The scan alerts are almost never on point. There's one location on my route where I receive almost daily requests for scan requests for an address more than a quarter mile away. My station manager actually said that wifi alarms at businesses on my route are causing the inaccuracies.
 
Posts: 58 | Location: Dallas, Texas | Registered: 14 March 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Oops, just realized I missed one of those scans when I postponed it today. Always get the alert on the wrong street or farther up the street from the actual address. Now I`ll probably have the manager stopping by the case tomorrow wondering why I missed it.

Also, they know exactly how many pieces of mail you need to scan. So one day it was for a vacant so I didn`t scan the letters. Manager was at my case the next day asking why.
 
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Message scanner alerts are always off. Sometimes next street over and will not be at that address for a few hours
 
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My Scanner is good within 100ft on the first request. But it will tighten up from that first scan to 10 to 20ft from front of home! Remember that GPS is a military device that has a built in algorithm that moves from day to day hour to hour. This is for security reasons. The scan request are nothing more than a way to get a better fix. It used to say 5 pieces but they found that the send and reply was too short to get a good fix! Thus scan 15 Pieces
 
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